A few clues

[girlyswot]

For the film meme here. The unguessed quotes are:

3. "How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen? Do you have to be eighteen before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen old enough to be left to die on the side of the road! Did you know that?"
This is the most recent film on the list, which came out within the last 12 months. I cried all the way through it.
Atonement, guessed by brownfach

5. "I said, I said I saw your dad on "Fantasy Island"!"
I love this film - it's pretending to be an action movie, but really it's a romantic comedy with guns. A lot of guns. In unexpected places.
Mr and Mrs Smith, guessed by bookish327

8. "It's not "show friends." It's show *business*."
One of Tom Cruise's best films (though he didn't say this line).
Jerry Maguire, guessed by dogstar101

10. Character A: "Plato, in Greek! Not easy." Character B: "Don't you think so?"
I'm not really surprised no one else knows this. It's my most-watched film and it was Helena Bonham Carter's first role.
Lady Jane guessed, brilliantly, by tdu000

11. "I do this in the name of sports-watching, romantically-minded men; a maligned, misunderstood minority."
A romantic comedy in which perspective really matters. The US title is different from the UK title. This line is spoken by a man behind the customer help desk at Heathrow. Same lead actor as number 9.
Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, guessed (sort of) by tdu000

15.Character A: "Anyway, what's that saying about the sea and there being plenty of fish in it?" Character B: "Ah, yes, but I couldn't possibly marry a fish. I'd be sure to land an old trout."
Film of a play. Not sure if this line was in the original. Might be.
An Ideal Husband, guessed with A LOT of help, by tdu000

And don't forget there are extra bonus points for anyone who can tell me the movie trivia link between #5 and #13 (Mansfield Park). Well done to bookish327 who correctly worked out that Jonny Lee Miller who starred in Mansfield Park was once married to Angelina Jolie who starred in Mr and Mrs Smith. I feel that you deserve a prize. Would you like a story? Give me characters/prompts/whatever and I'll see what I can do.

Well done, everyone!

Comments

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

8 has to be Jerry Maguire. 11 feels very familiar but I can't quite get there.

[brownfach.livejournal.com]

Is number 3 Atonement?

#5

[bookish327.livejournal.com]

#5 is Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I probably wouldn't have been able to nail down which movie it was if they hadn't been showing it on cable so much recently (and if it weren't a movie that both my husband and I can agree on).

Oooh, oooh, oooh, one more.

[bookish327.livejournal.com]

*bouncing up and down in her seat like Hermione*

I figured out the movie trivia link between #5 and #13. Jonny Lee Miller (of the 1999 version of MANSFIELD PARK) was married (a long time ago) to Angelina Jolie (of MR. AND MRS. SMITH).

Squee!!!

[bookish327.livejournal.com]

*Squeals, clapping and pounding bare feet on the plastic desk-chair floor mat*

Thank you so much for the offer of a story!!! You made my day! I love H/G, R/H stories with funny Weasley banter and teasing, especially involving Gred & Forge teasing the Magic Quartet and vice versa. (Who can leave Ginny out of the Trio?! Blasphemy, I tell you.) If you want to make it post-Final Battle (DH-compliant), I can excuse Fred from being there. Or it could be a Missing Moment or AU, if you want to set it while the Quartet are still school-age.

Thank you again so much! :-D

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

Considering how much I like all the other movies on your list, I'm amazed that Mr. and Mrs. Smith is on there since I really loathed it. The Admiral and I looked at each other at the end of it and said, "Well, it's a good thing they're both so pretty, because that was terrible!"

That's ok. I think the Admiral and I are the only two people in the world who didn't love Pirates of the Carribean either.

There's always something.

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

OK, you have a new thread for this. So it is Oscar Wilde. "The Importance of Being Earnest" was remade a few years ago and "An Ideal Husband" before that. Whichever it is, I bet Rupert Everett said the second line! I'll guess "An Ideal Husband" because I didn't really recognise the line, just guessed, and I know "The Importance of Being Earnest" a lot better (doesn't everyone?).

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

LADY JANE! Of course I've seen it but not for ages and ages. I do know it's Helena Bonham-Carter's first role, so the clue gave it away. I know which scene that line is from now. (#10, of course.)

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I know the last film but I can't remember either title. It's the one where all the three blokes (Rufus Sewell played one of them) fall for the same American girl isn't it? The bit I remember is Joseph Fiennes lying on the couch of his neighbour (Ray Winstone) unburdening himself of all the angst but it turns out he's a builder not a shrink.